I don’t want to make 

too much of this, but it’s true –

Every day on my 

way to work I pass by several

cemeteries. Though

I know they haven’t just sprung

up, my awareness

has and with it, a heightened 

sense of all life’s joy

and all life’s suffering, of

all that once was and

 all that is no longer -the

poignant price of being mortal.

                                                                                                                                     JDG